Hacker News with Generative AI: Restaurants

Tipping: How Gratuity Replaced Fair Wages in U.S. Restaurants (7shifts.com)
When you dine out at a restaurant, you tip your server. It’s the expectation and an essential part of how restaurant workers earn a living. A guest’s tip subsidizes wages for most of America’s restaurant workers.

Tipping, Restaurants, Wages, United States

90 points by madpen 12 days ago | 145 comments

In restaurants, We need a new way to signal that we're ready to pay (sebs.website)
Phones have displaced paper money and credit cards as the preferred way to pay for a bill at the end of a meal. The trouble is, how does the waiter know when you're ready to pay?

Restaurants, User Experience, Technology, Payment Methods

20 points by Incerto 17 days ago | 162 comments

Colorado passes bill punting to local governments on restaurant server pay (coloradosun.com)
A contentious bill pitting many restaurant owners against workers over how much tipped employees should earn was approved by the Colorado legislature Tuesday, with the restaurant industry feeling like it had achieved a small victory.

Politics, Labor, Restaurants, Colorado

5 points by mooreds 19 days ago | 0 comments

Owner fills restaurant with fresh water to beat Kentucky flooding (cnn.com)

Flooding, Kentucky, Restaurants, Weather

22 points by jader201 30 days ago | 7 comments

Elon Musk Gets Ready to Enter the Restaurant Business (nytimes.com)
A retro-futuristic diner is rising on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles. Curved, silvery and flanked by two outdoor film screens, it looks as if a flying saucer had sailed out of a 1950s drive-in movie and come to rest in the parking lot.

Elon Musk, Restaurants, Los Angeles, Retro-futurism

17 points by danso 48 days ago | 15 comments

The curious surge of productivity in U.S. restaurants (bfi.uchicago.edu)
We document that, after remaining almost constant for almost 30 years, real labor productivity at U.S. restaurants surged over 15% during the COVID pandemic.

Productivity, Restaurants, Economics, COVID-19

160 points by ryan_j_naughton 56 days ago | 271 comments

Show HN: Knowledge graph of restaurants and chefs, built using LLMs (theophilecantelob.re)
For French restaurant intel, lefooding.com is the definitive data source. Their anonymous critics conduct systematic reviews of establishments across France (and now Belgium), documenting their findings in a witty - if peculiar - style. Beyond choosing the place for a delicious night out, they can be used to map and understand France’s culinary network.

Knowledge Graphs, Restaurants, France

201 points by theophilec 67 days ago | 39 comments

Top London restaurants adopt minimum spend to deter bots and influencers (ft.com)

Restaurants, London, Influencers, Business, Technology

14 points by mmarian 77 days ago | 5 comments

Will the Real Burger King Please Stand Up? (2019) (eater.com)
The Burger King in Mattoon, Illinois, is not your typical Burger King. You won’t find Whoppers or chicken fries on the menu, and while there is a drive-up window, it won’t resemble almost any other modern drive-thru with a two-way speaker. Instead, you’ll find fresh burgers with beef straight from the meat market, a single window, and employees who run out to cars with a paper and pencil in tow when the line gets too long (a la Portillo’s, fellow Midwesterners).

Food, Restaurants, Local Businesses, Illinois

23 points by toomuchtodo 78 days ago | 0 comments

When the Michelin Star Becomes a Restaurant's Curse (wsj.com)
Last fall, the restaurant Giglio in Lucca, Italy, made a surprising request: to have its Michelin star removed from the 2025 guide.

Food, Michelin Guide, Restaurants, Italy

6 points by Jimmc414 81 days ago | 1 comments

I pulled data on 1378 restaurants from Google Maps to rank them in order (mattsayar.com)
See how this list was created. This page was last updated February 12, 2025.

Data Analysis, Restaurants, Google Maps, Programming

77 points by MattSayar 85 days ago | 51 comments

Where are the best restaurants in my city? A statistical analysis (mattsayar.com)
Everyone wants to know the best places to eat, but the "best place" is inherently subjective.

Restaurants, Data Analysis, City Guides, Local Businesses

42 points by MattSayar 86 days ago | 18 comments

Domino's Pizza to close 172 outlets in Japan (japantimes.co.jp)
Domino's Pizza Enterprises, headquartered in Australia, said Friday that it will close 205 unprofitable outlets worldwide, including 172 in Japan.

Domino's Pizza, Japan, Business, Retail, Restaurants

22 points by mikhael 88 days ago | 10 comments

Waffle House is placing a surcharge on every egg it sells (cnn.com)

Food, Restaurants, Economics, Business

6 points by a_shovel 94 days ago | 0 comments

Norwich restaurant charges £100 ($122) for a pineapple pizza (theguardian.com)
A pizzeria is asking its customers to put their dough where their mouth is if they want to eat a Hawaiian – charging £100 for a ham and pineapple-topped pizza.

Food, Restaurants, UK, Pricing, Controversy

10 points by 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 115 days ago | 10 comments

Americans Are Tipping Less Than They Have in Years (wsj.com)
People are tipping less at restaurants than they have in at least six years, driven by fatigue over rising prices and growing prompts for tips at places where gratuities haven’t historically been expected.

Economy, Restaurants, Consumer Behavior

34 points by listenallyall 119 days ago | 89 comments

The Class Politics of Fine Dining (contexts.org)
Some people still have stress dreams about high school exams. I still have stress dreams about working for David Bouley.

Class, Food, Restaurants, Economics

24 points by speckx 126 days ago | 9 comments

FTC Action Against Grubhub for Harming Diners, Workers, and Small Businesses (ftc.gov)

FTC, Lawsuits, Restaurants, Food Delivery, Business

6 points by impish9208 143 days ago | 0 comments

The great tweezer takeover: Is fine dining hijacking the soul of San Francisco? (sfstandard.com)
As more chefs embrace the fuss and foam, the city's sweet spot — the midlevel restaurant — is at risk of becoming extinct.

Food, San Francisco, Restaurants, Culinary Trends

5 points by Stratoscope 151 days ago | 0 comments

When the Check Came for Outdoor Dining (slate.com)
Four years ago, as pundits and politicians predicted the end of the city, an unlikely symbol of resilience emerged: a hastily built wooden platform, in the curb lane outside a restaurant, where people could eat and drink without fear of infection.

Restaurants, Pandemic, Urban Planning

9 points by rntn 187 days ago | 1 comments

California passes law allowing Dutch-style cannabis cafes (medicalxpress.com)
Starting next year, diners in the western US state of California can smoke cannabis at certain restaurants, thanks to a new law allowing for "cannabis cafes" akin to those popularized in the Netherlands.

Cannabis, California Law, Legalization, Restaurants

24 points by PaulHoule 204 days ago | 10 comments

Kitchen staff were canaries in the coal mine (2022) (economistwritingeveryday.com)
I’ve long been a lurker on r/kitchenconfidential. I did a few brief tours in the service industry when I was younger and my partner used to manage a successful upscale restaurant. If you’ve spent anytime in a restaurant after closing in the last ten years, then you probably aren’t surprised by the continuing labor shortage in the service industry.

Labor Shortages, Service Industry, Restaurants

65 points by toomuchtodo 224 days ago | 69 comments

When You Call a Restaurant, You Might Be Chatting with an AI Host (wired.com)
A pleasant female voice greets me over the phone. “Hi, I’m an assistant named Jasmine for Bodega,” the voice says. “How can I help?”

Artificial Intelligence, Restaurants, Customer Service

14 points by rntn 229 days ago | 23 comments

David Chang on the long, hard, stupid way (herbertlui.net)
I recently came across a great quote from David Chang, “Just because we’re a casual restaurant, doesn’t mean we don’t hold ourselves to fine dining standards. We try to do things the right way. That usually means doing things the long, hard, stupid way.”

Food, Restaurants, Business, Interviews

263 points by herbertl 240 days ago | 169 comments

How Landlocked Reno became a destination for all-you-can-eat sushi (sfgate.com)

Food, Restaurants, Reno, Nevada, Travel

17 points by geocrasher 244 days ago | 5 comments

When I'm Dining Out, Should I Have to Deal with Your Dogs? (nytimes.com)

Dining, Etiquette, Pets, Restaurants

11 points by lxm 248 days ago | 8 comments

More people than ever are eating alone at restaurants (cnn.com)

Dining, Restaurants, Social Trends

22 points by rntn 250 days ago | 14 comments

A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant (2017) (washingtonpost.com)

Restaurants, Business, Reviews

276 points by mhb 256 days ago | 481 comments

Restaurants fight FTC crackdown on junk fees as diners balk at new charges (cnbc.com)